Motherland,my dear Motherland
--ShuTing
I am a water wagon by the river
which keeps intoning for you without languor.
I am a miner's lamp
enlightening you to explore in the tunnel of history.
I am like the barren rice seed and the disrepair roadbed.
I am a boat in the muddy beach,
and you are the tracker drawing ahead.
My motherland.
Sometimes I'm sad and poor.
But I'm still hopeful
because of my responsibility for the ancestor.
I am the freshest flower in your heart.
My motherland.
I am a new idea
just discovered from the web in the legend.
I'm a lotus seed under your snow.
I'm your fossette with tear.
I'm a new scratch line.
I'm a sun rising in your sky.
My motherland.
I am one 1.3 billionth
and one part of your 9.6 million square kilometer.
I grew up suckled by you
and got dream and thought.
I will devote myself to your mightiness and prosperity.
My motherland.